Human Rights Education
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Address Before the Jewish Theological Seminary of America at the Hotel Diplomat, Hollywood, Florida
It is important to remember that though we must tolerate dissent which is patently wrong, we must strive to make our own dissent and criticism responsible. The right to speak carries with it a duty to be informed; to be ourselves reasonable; to propose constructive alternatives. For only criticism which is responsible can lead to…
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Speech delivered at Sioux City, Iowa
Education is the key to preserving individual capacity to act, to provide for oneself without dependence on government . . . And education . . . is the key to understanding the world about us, the world of new nations and nuclear weapons, affluence and starvation, war and peace.
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Speech delivered at Des Moines, Iowa
In this mobile society, with most Americans moving across state lines at least once in their lifetime, the education of a child in Iowa contributes to the whole nation— and a stunted education elsewhere can force Iowa to spend more on welfare and police and housing. Education is a national resource; it should be paid…
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Address at the Sixth Annual Westside Community Conference, Columbia University, New York City
Education is not only important to understanding the world and each other
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Address at Kentucky’s Centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, Freedom Hall, Louisville, Kentucky
It is one thing to open the schools to all children regardless of race. It is another to train the teachers, to build the classrooms, and to attempt to eliminate the effects of past educational deficiencies. It is still another to find ways to feed the incentive to learn and keep children in school.
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Speech at the University of Alabama
Education is the key to jobs—to income—to human dignity itself . . . In the last analysis the quality of education is a question of commitment—of whether people like us are willing to go into the classrooms as teachers or parents, as volunteers or just as concerned citizens, to ensure that every child learns to…
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Speech Prepared for Delivery at University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
We will, in a sense, have to make of the United States a vast continuing educational system
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Speech at the Dedication of Mt. Providence Junior College, Baltimore, Maryland
We are coming to understand that much of what is wrong with our education system is precisely that it is too much involved with government. Impersonal bureaucracies, however well-intentioned, operating from efficient remote headquarters, are no substitute for the intimate involvement of community—of home or church, of local voluntary association, and—in the last analysis—the active…
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Speech in Chicago
Education is basic to the future of this nation. When thousands of our citizens are afforded only inferior educational opportunities, they suffer a loss which can never be compensated and the whole country is subjected to unnecessary social and economic waste.
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Speech Delivered at the Commencement Exercises at Trinity College, Washington, D.C.
I suspect there may always be arguments about what constitutes a higher education, but wise men through the ages have at least been able to agree on its purpose.
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Address Before the Jewish Theological Seminary of America at the Hotel Diplomat, Hollywood, Florida
On Jewish literature is a seal on which is the burning bush and the words in Hebrew, “And the Bush was not consumed.” So it must be today— for the more brightly the flame of discussion and debate burns in our nation, the more sure it is that the bush that is democracy will never…
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Speech at the Dedication of Mt. Providence Junior College, Baltimore, Maryland
Our schools, our homes, our families, our churches—these are the vessels in which we preserve traditions and wisdom and ideals of our past, in which we add the experience and insights which best serve our time, through which we pass our truest legacy to our children.
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